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If we ever desire to win a conservative majority even within the Republican conference, we must elect unvarnished conservatives in solid red states like Nebraska. That's why we are supporting Don Stenberg, a man who has held consistent conservative views, for Senate.
Unfortunately, Jon Bruning is spending a lot of money convincing people that he is something that he never was before he decided to run for Senate. As Erick pointed out, not only did Bruning lobby for the confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General and Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General and head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, he refuses to admit it was a mistake, even after Holder has proven himself to be the worst man to ever hold that office.
Yesterday, Bruning doubled down on his support for Holder during an interview with a local radio station in Omaha. What was even more appalling was his attempt to rationalize that support by suggesting that Holder was going to be confirmed anyway so he felt that it was prudent to be "reasonable" and "supportive" of guy who they'd have to work with. Towards the end of the clip, he went on to assert that he definitely opposes some of the things Holder and Tom Perez have done in the Justice Department.
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It is simply astounding that somebody would so brazenly stand by their support for Eric Holder after his calamitous three years in office. It is unconscionable that we would nominate this guy from a state like Nebraska. I'll say it again, and will keep repeating it throughout the campaign season: if we can't elect reasonably consistent conservatives from states like this, then we should pack up our bags and forget about winning in politics.
We don't have to settle for a 'when you can't beat 'em, join 'em' Republican. Let's help elect Don Stenberg, a man who will vote and advocate against radical nominees, irrespective of how likely they are to succeed.
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As an engineer and as a writer for Hack a Day, I am used to seeing hardware in all kinds of states; from looking professionally done, to artfully constructed, to downright hackish. Unfortunately in today's society of manufactured goods, most people just don't have any experience with homemade electronics. Furthermore, because of a frenzied fear of terrorists, bombs, and IEDs, people who aren't familiar with hacked or personally constructed hardware often assume the worst.
These assumptions can be inconvenient for some of us, when we have to explain that, "Yes, I made this myself. No, it isn't dangerous". The real tragedy is when fears like this are imposed onto children and students who have an interest in building something of their own. Recently there was a story about a middle school student from San Diego who built a motion detector into a bottle. He attended a technically-oriented school, and decided that he would bring in his project to show his friends. After a teacher spotted this "Suspicious looking bottle with wires coming out of it", the device was confiscated, a bomb squad was called out, and the school was evacuated. After using a robot to X-ray and examine the bottle thoroughly the bomb squad finally declared the project safe. Instead of listening to the student from start, thousands of dollars were wasted bringing out the bomb squad and an entire day of school was interrupted because the administrators gave in to fear of something they didn't know about. The worst part of all of this is that while the student wasn't formally punished, the school district recommended that he should undergo counseling to correct his behavior.
This isn't an isolated incident either. Back in 2007 an engineer who had built one of Adafruit's MintyBoost kits was stopped in airport security because the kit "Looked like an IED". In that case the engineer in question stood his ground, calmly explained what it was he had, and why it wasn't dangerous. Luckily, the police that were called in were of a more rational mind, and after proving that the kit performed as promised (lighting up a USB LED lamp), told the TSA to let him go, kit and all. While this does bring up questions towards the arbitrary rules used in TSA screening, that is not the point of this story. Airline troubles have even extended to our friends over at MakerBot, who had their luggage searched on the way to CES. The important message to get across is how important it is for makers, hackers, circuit benders, and anyone else who creates or modifies something to share their projects with friends, family, and the internet.
Until people start to realize that not all electronics come from a store, stories like these will keep happening. Education is the only effective tool against fear, and without people like our readers sharing their creations and taking time to talk to people about what the hardware hacking scene is, the general population can't be expected to know any better. This responsibility to educate is even more important for people like parents, teachers, and organizations such as the TSA and the police because of the influential nature of who they are.
I want to thank anyone who has shared their projects with us, and urge all of you to continue. Our mission here at Hack a Day is to share the amazing projects that are out there, and to help spread the word and interest of hardware and software creation and modification. This mission extends both to experts as well as people who have never seen anything like this before. The knowledge you all share with us helps us spread the word of hacking to as many people as we can get to listen.
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The first round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations has been proceeding this week (July 8 through 12) in Washington, D.C. largely under the radar. Although there has been relatively little coverage of the confab thus far, European and American officials and privileged "stakeholders" are busily negotiating agreements on a host of issues that would, if adopted, radically transform America.
The TTIP is being billed as a trade agreement and marketed by the Obama administration and corporate sponsors as an initiative that will almost magically create millions of jobs and usher in wave after wave of innovation and prosperity. But as we have reported in our in-depth look at TTIP, "Secretly Trading Away Our Independence," there is a stealth agenda behind this "trade" agreement; the ultimate aim of the TTIP promoters is the economic and political merger of the United States with the European Union. They say so in their own words, though usually not in forums for the general public.
"In TTIP, we have the opportunity to accomplish something very significant for our economies, for our relationship, and for the global trading system as a whole," said U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman at the opening plenary session on July 8. Froman continued:
We have an opportunity to spur growth and to generate significant increases in the already substantial number of jobs supported by transatlantic trade and investment.
We have the opportunity to complement one of the greatest alliances of all time with an equally compelling economic relationship.
And we have the opportunity to work together to establish and enforce international norms and standards that will help inform and strengthen the multilateral, rules-based trading system.
In the last sentence above, we catch a glimpse of the real purpose of the current negotiations: "to establish and enforce international norms and standards" and "strengthen the multilateral, rules-based trading system." International rules, with international enforcement.
As we have reported previously, the clear goal of the architects of the TTIP is to ensnare the United States in the same ever-tightening process of economic and political integration and convergence that has transformed Europe from a continent of independent nation-states into a supranational federation ruled by unelected and unaccountable oligarchs in Brussels, unrestrained by any constitutional impediments. When this process began in Europe decades ago, following World War II, wise observers warned that the promised trade benefits were a ruse to hide the real fact that every step forward along this path was a step for centralizing and concentrating power, while simultaneously stripping away local autonomy and national sovereignty. (See "United States of Europe.")
Now the nations of the European Union are trapped, and many of its citizens are trying desperately to extricate their countries from the tightening EU noose. They are being forced to pay for bailouts for the big banks, corporations, unions, and government boondoggles. They are being forced to accept regulations dictated by Brussels bureaucrats over all areas of their lives.
The same kind of micro-managing-by-bureaucracy is being planned for the EU-U.S. "partnership." Here is a list of the areas that are being negotiated in the current round of TTIP talks, as listed by the U.S. Trade Representative's website:
Agricultural Market Access
Cross-Border Services
Customs and Trade Facilitation
Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications
Energy and Raw Materials
Environment Financial Services
Government Procurement
Intellectual Property Rights
Legal/Institutional Issues
Localization Barriers
Market Access and Industrial Goods Tariffs
Regulatory Coherence and Transparency
Rules of Origin
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures
Sectoral Annexes/Regulatory Cooperation
Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
State-Owned Enterprises
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
Trade Remedies
As sweepingly broad as this list may seem, we can be sure that it is merely a start, as the EU experience has plainly shown; if allowed to be established, it would soon mushroom to cover virtually every aspect of life.
Privileged "Stakeholders": Phony "Transparency" and "Consensus"
Who are the folks crafting this new transatlantic "relationship"? In addition to government officials (led, for the United , by the U.S. Trade Representative and the State, Treasury and Commerce Departments), an assortment of corporate, industry, trade association, and NGO activist "stakeholders" have been assigned special rights at the negotiating table. These include:
Sierra Club
Friends of the Earth
Humane Society of the U.S./ Humane Society International
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Consumer Federation of America
Public Citizen's Global Access to Medicines Program
Center for Science in the Public Interest
These and other left-tilting groups are supposedly balanced by the following stakeholder organizations, which are usually described as "pro-market":
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
National Manufacturing Association
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
Grocery Manufacturers Association
Computer & Communications Industry Association
American Association of Exporters & Importers
While many of the players in this supposedly diverse cast will hold clashing opinions on a multitude of issues, they tend to agree on one fundamental issue: global governance, which is merely a euphemism for global government. The one side wants to see a global regime that would enforce global environmental and social policy, while the other seeks the alleged benefits of a global regime that would make regulations uniform and easier for businesses to navigate. Both are willing to sacrifice national sovereignty and all that goes with it – the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, checks and balances, states' rights –to obtain their Holy Grails. It does not appear that there is a single organization among the assembled TTIP stakeholders to represent the interests of national sovereignty and independence as bonafide goods worthy of contending for.
Some of the stakeholder organizations give the appearance of championing national sovereignty while actually pushing for even greater global controls. Regular readers of The New American will not be surprised to find Lori Wallach among the TTIP's controlled opposition. As we pointed out more than a decade ago ("Organized Anarchy"), when Wallach was put forward as the leading opponent of the World Trade Organization, her main problem with the WTO is that she wants it to have more power over more areas of our lives! Wallach represents Global Trade Watch, a subsidiary of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen. The Ford Foundation, a primary source of funding for numerous radical groups, has been one of the principal funders for Global Trade Watch.
Interdependence vs. Independence
On June 19, just two weeks before America's Independence Day this year, and three weeks before the start of the current TTIP round, The National Interest, a neoconservative journal appealing to a wide array of Beltway policy elites, published an article entitled "A New Declaration of Interdependence" arguing for quick passage of TTIP. The article was co-authored by Aart De Geus, chairman and CEO of the Bertelsmann Foundation, and Frederick Kempe, president and CEO of the Atlantic Council. Both organizations are major boosters of the EU, TTIP, and most other globalist projects. Kempe is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which has been the principal brain trust in the United States pushing for world government for most of the past century.
The highly influential CFR journal Foreign Affairs has likewise been busy lobbying for TTIP support among public policy and business elites. A July 10 Foreign Affairs article, "Getting to Yes on Transatlantic Trade," and earlier articles such as "For Transatlantic Trade, This Time Is Different" and "Reviving the West: For an Atlantic Union", are an integral part of the massive CFR lobbying offensive now underway to marshal support for TTIP, building toward votes in Congress on the matter next year.
Related articles:
Secretly Trading Away Our Independence
United States of Europe (A prophetic warning from nearly a quarter century ago)
Obama Administration Warns U.K. of Economic Loss if it Exits EU
Obama, Cameron, Barroso Push EU-U.S. Merger at G8 Ireland Summit
CFR Applauds European Union's "Real Subversion of Sovereignty"
Republished with permission from: The New American


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Worthy Fathers, Worthy Sons
Title | Worthy Fathers, Worthy Sons |
Publication Type | Magazine Article |
Year of Publication | 1985 |
Authors | Benson, Ezra Taft |
Magazine | Ensign |
Volume | 15 |
Issue Number | 11 |
Pagination | 35-37 |
Date Published | November 1985 |
Keywords | Alma the Younger; Corianton (Son of Alma); Enos (Son of Jacob); Family; Fatherhood; Helaman (Son of Alma the Younger); Helaman (Son of Helaman); Jacob (Son of Lehi); King Benjamin; Lehi (Prophet); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Parenthood |
Abstract | Provides examples of close relationships between fathers and sons in the Book of Mormon and shows that they are appropriate models for families today. |
URL | https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1985/11/worthy-fathers-worthy-sons?lang=eng |
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Worthy Fathers, Worthy Sons
President Ezra Taft Benson
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
I speak to you tonight on the subject of worthy fathers, worthy sons. The Book of Mormon was meant for us. It was written for our day. Its scriptures are to be likened unto ourselves. (See 1 Ne. 19:23.)
With that understanding, let us consider from the Book of Mormon the responsibility fathers have to teach their sons, and the responsibility sons have to take direction from their fathers. Since this is a general priesthood meeting, I will speak of fathers and sons. But of course, this counsel also applies to all parents and their children.
The opening lines of the Book of Mormon read: "I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father." (1 Ne. 1:1.)
Good fathers teach their sons, and good sons listen and obey. Teaching is done by precept and example, and by word and deed. A good model is the best teacher. Therefore, a father's first responsibility is to set the proper example.
Lehi, Nephi's father, lived an exemplary life. He had a vision in which he "beheld a tree, whose fruit was desirable to make one happy." (1 Ne. 8:10.) This tree represented the love of God. (See 1 Ne. 11:25.) Lehi partook of its fruit, which "filled [his] soul with exceedingly great joy." (1 Ne. 8:12.) After he had a personal testimony of its goodness, he took the next step of inviting his family to also partake.
Fathers, here is a divine pattern: As the leader of the family, Lehi first taught by example. He led out in righteousness—in conversion to Christ. Then he taught by word, saying, "Believe as I believe."
What then was Nephi's responsibility after receiving this kind of direction from his father? The Book of Mormon states that Nephi, having heard all the words of his father concerning the things which he saw in vision, was desirous that he might "know of these things, by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him." (1 Ne. 10:17.)
Nephi had listened to his father, had believed his father, but he wanted to know through the same source his father knew—revelation. Worthy sons are entitled to receive from their Heavenly Father confirmation concerning the direction their mortal father gives them. It takes revelation to perceive revelation. So Nephi diligently sought the Lord and received a revelation which reaffirmed the revelation his father had given to the family.
What did the righteous fathers of the Book of Mormon teach their sons? They taught them many things, but the overarching message was "the great plan of the Eternal God"—the Fall, rebirth, Atonement, Resurrection, Judgment, eternal life. (See Alma 34:9.) Enos said he knew his father was a just man, "for he taught me in his language, and also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord—and blessed be the name of my God for it." (Enos 1:1.)
Those in the Book of Mormon who were taught nothing concerning the Lord but only concerning worldly knowledge became a cunning and wicked people. (See Mosiah 24:5, 7.)
All truths are not of the same value. The saving truths of salvation are of greatest worth. These truths the fathers taught plainly, frequently, and fervently. Are we fathers doing likewise?
Lehi taught his son Jacob about the sacrifice of the Messiah and the need for "a broken heart and a contrite spirit." He told his son that there is "opposition in all things" and that men are "free to choose liberty and eternal life" through the Lord or "captivity and death" through the devil, who desires all men to "be miserable like unto himself." (2 Ne. 2:7, 11, 27.)
Repetition is a key to learning. Our sons need to hear the truth repeated, especially because there is so much falsehood abroad. Devoted Book of Mormon fathers constantly reminded their sons of saving truths. "O remember, remember, my sons, the words which king Benjamin spake unto his people," said Helaman. "Yea, remember that there is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ." (Hel. 5:9.) "My sons, remember, remember," Helaman continued, "that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation." (Hel. 5:12.)
In the Book of Mormon, faithful fathers constantly bore their testimonies to their sons. "Remember that these sayings are true, and also that these records are true," King Benjamin testified to his sons. (Mosiah 1:6.) Alma bore witness to his son Helaman saying, "I do know; and the knowledge which I have is of God." (Alma 36:26.)
Great family legacies are kept alive in the Book of Mormon. Alma taught Helaman about how he had heard Helaman's grandfather prophesy. (See Alma 36:17.)
King Benjamin caused that his three sons "should be taught in all the language of his fathers." (Mosiah 1:2.) They needed to understand and use the language of holy writ. If they didn't know the right words, they wouldn't know the plan. The Mulekites had no scriptures, and their language and faith became corrupted. (See Omni 1:17.)
In the Book of Mormon, loving fathers commended their sons when they deserved it. Alma complimented Shiblon, saying, "You have commenced in your youth to look to the Lord." (Alma 38:2.) Mormon told his son Moroni, "I recommend thee unto God." (Moro. 9:22.) Our sons need to be encouraged in their righteous endeavors.
If their sons strayed, stalwart Book of Mormon fathers still continued to teach them. Lehi exhorted two wayward sons with "all the feeling of a tender parent, that they would hearken to his words." (1 Ne. 8:37.) He preached to them and bade them keep the commandments of God. (See 1 Ne. 8:37–38.)
Alma reproved his son Corianton for his immoral behavior. This loving father said that it was no excuse that many others were also guilty. (See Alma 39:4.) Alma told Corianton frankly that his conduct made it so that some people would not believe Alma's words. (See Alma 39:11.) Alma then taught him the principle that "wickedness never was happiness." (Alma 41:10.)
Why did righteous fathers in the Book of Mormon go to so much trouble to teach their sons the word of God? King Benjamin said it was to fulfill the commandments of God. (See Mosiah 1:4.) He further stated that were it not for their having the brass plates which contained the commandments, they would have "suffered in ignorance." (Mosiah 1:3.) Could the lack of teaching the scriptures in our homes be a source of our suffering in ignorance today?
As the brass plates blessed Lehi and his descendants, so our scriptures should bless us. "And now, my sons," said King Benjamin, "I would that ye should remember to search them diligently, that ye may profit thereby; and I would that ye should keep the commandments of God." (Mosiah 1:7.) In other words, first read them, then heed them.
At what age do we begin teaching our sons these gospel truths? Alma taught his son Helaman while he was in his youth. (See Alma 36:3.) Our youth ought not to wait until the mission field to get a grasp of the scriptures and a closeness to the Lord. Lehi said that his son Jacob beheld the glory of the Lord in his youth. (See 2 Ne. 2:4.) Imagine what would happen to missionary work if we sent out that kind of young men.
How often should fathers teach these truths to their sons? King Benjamin speaks of having the commandments "always before our eyes." (Mosiah 1:5.)
Enos describes the beginning of a great spiritual experience that happened to him this way: "Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart" (Enos 1:3.) Note the phrase, "I had often heard my father speak."
In summary, the Book of Mormon, which is the most correct book on earth, demonstrates that the major responsibility for teaching our sons the great plan of the Eternal Father—the Fall, rebirth, Atonement, Resurrection, Judgment, eternal life—rests with fathers. It should be done individually as well as in the family. It should be preached and discussed so our children will know the commandments. It should be done from their youth up—and often.
May we fathers teach our sons as the exemplary Book of Mormon fathers taught their sons. And may our sons, like Nephi, listen and obey, knowing that because of those teachings they too were born of goodly parents, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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Some say the name Ibuki (strong exhalation) comes from the powerful winds common on Mt. Ibuki. As the wind picked up and the approaching storm made its way ever closer, I was convinced. "Ame ona (rain woman) does it again," I thought to myself.
The day before I had been hiking in Nara and had spent the morning and afternoon hitchhiking north to Shiga Prefecture. I arrived at the trailhead at half past 3 p.m. knowing I was getting a late start. The place looked pretty empty except for a woman at a small kiosk and another oba-san outside a pension sweeping the porch.
As I walked past the kiosk, the woman called out "Itterashai!" (Have a good one.) I smiled and asked if she minded me leaving my gigantic pack near her shop to save time. She was more than happy to let me leave it and warned me that nightfall would be here before I knew it.
I speedily made my way along the trail, stopping to take few photos and enjoying the spring flowers and plants along the way. This mountain was vibrant with life. I looked down, and a few snails were right in squashing distance on the trail so I moved them carefully into the grass.
I had read in a guidebook that 300 million years ago, Ibuki-san was a volcano under the sea and, after it raised into a landmass, was perfect for creatures to grow due to the heavy mineral deposits. The calcium especially made it easy for shelled creatures such as snails to live.
Reaching the top, I was disappointed the hike was so short, but grateful since the sun was setting. I was at the summit but looked around, and the mountain felt wide, as if it extended forever. I finally understood what adventurer and creator of the original hyakumeizan list, Kyuya Fukuda meant when he said this mountain "had volume."
Trail Tips
From the seventh station, the trail gets pretty steep, and the rocks underneath you on the trail are a bit loose, so watch your step. As winter approaches, the area will become a ski resort and bus service times will change, so confirm availability before you depart.
Mountain Stats
Mountain: Mt. Ibuki
Difficulty Level: 2 out of 5
Location: Border of Shiga and Gifu Prefectures.
Peak: 1,377 meters
Duration: One-day hike
When to go: April-November
How to get there: Take the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagoya and transfer to a local train on to Maibara Station. From there, take a bus to Aomi-Nagaoka, which will bring you to the trailhead.
Getting There
Tokyo Station ⇒ Nagoya ⇒ Maibara ⇒ Aomi-Nagaoka ⇒ Ibuki-san Trailhead
(1 hr, 40 mins. 6,090) ⇒ (9 mins. 230) ⇒ (41 mins. 1,280yen) ⇒ (12 mins. 290)
Contact Information
Aomi-nagaoka Taxi Service: (0749) 55-0106
Koukoku Bus Center: (0749) 64-1224
Ibuki-machi Tourist Information: (0749) 58-1121
Ibuki Family Log House: (0749) 58-1323
Things Not to Miss
If you want to stay a few days and enjoy skiing in the winter or canoeing on Lake Hakuryu, check out the Ibuki Family Log House Nature Villa. A one-night stay with two homemade meals will run you about 9,000. Ski season starts from Dec. 22.
Recommended Hiking Schedule
3 hours, 20 mins.


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About 25,000 infants are born to hepatitis B-infected mothers each year in the United States, according to background information in the study. Without vaccination, 40 to 90 percent of those infants would become infected. Up to 90 percent of those who contracted the virus would develop chronic infection and possibly die from cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Infants born to mothers infected with hepatitis B should receive the hepatitis B vaccine and hepatitis B immune globulin within 12 hours of birth, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends. Infants should complete the three-dose hepatitis B series, which is up to 95 percent effective in preventing infections.
Between ages 9 months and 18 months, these infants should also receive post-vaccination blood testing to ensure they did not become infected and are protected, the committee advises. The virus is usually not detected until complications develop.
The study, by Ruthie Benson of the Texas Department of State Health Services and colleagues, is published in the Sept. 28 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
For the study, the researchers analyzed data from the Enhanced Perinatal Hepatitis B Case Management Projects. They found that more than 80 percent of infants received recommended vaccinations but only 64 percent also received recommended follow-up testing.
Of those infants, 93 percent were protected from hepatitis B infection, 1 percent became infected and 3 percent were still susceptible to infection. Susceptible infants can be revaccinated and retested.
Timely post-vaccination blood testing is critical to protect infants against hepatitis B infection and to monitor progress toward eliminating the transmission of hepatitis B from mothers to infants, the researchers concluded.
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Statement from fmr. Ron Paul staffer on Newsletters, Anti-Semitism
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Fmr. Senior Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul, 1997 – 2003
Campaign Coordinator, Ron Paul for Congress, 1995/96
National Organizer, Draft Ron Paul for President, 1991/92
Travel Aide/Personal Asst. Ron Paul, Libertarian for President
I have been asked by various media the last few days for my comments, view of the current situation regarding my former boss Ron Paul, as he runs for the presidency on the Republican ticket.
I've noticed in some media that my words have been twisted and used for an agenda from both sides. And I wish to set the record straight with media that I trust and know will get the story right: conservative/libertarian-conservative bloggers.
Is Ron Paul a "racist." In short, No. I worked for the man for 12 years, pretty consistently. I never heard a racist word expressed towards Blacks or Jews come out of his mouth. Not once. And understand, I was his close personal assistant. It's safe to say that I was with him on the campaign trail more than any other individual, whether it be traveling to Fairbanks, Alaska or Boston, Massachusetts in the presidential race, or across the congressional district to San Antonio or Corpus Christi, Texas.
He has frequently hired blacks for his office staff, starting as early as 1988 for the Libertarian campaign. He has also hired many Hispanics, including his current District staffer Dianna Gilbert-Kile.
One caveat: He is what I would describe as "out of touch," with both Hispanic and Black culture. Ron is far from being the hippest guy around. He is completely clueless when it comes to Hispanic and Black culture, particularly Mexican-American culture. And he is most certainly intolerant of Spanish and those who speak strictly Spanish in his presence, (as are a number of Americans, nothing out of the ordinary here.)
Is Ron Paul an Anti-Semite? Absolutely No. As a Jew, (half on my mother's side), I can categorically say that I never heard anything out of his mouth, in hundreds of speeches I listened too over the years, or in my personal presence that could be called, "Anti-Semite." No slurs. No derogatory remarks.
He is however, most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general. He wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all. He expressed this to me numerous times in our private conversations. His view is that Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of it, to the Arabs.
Again, American Jews, Ron Paul has no problem with. In fact, there were a few Jews in our congressional district, and Ron befriended them with the specific intent of winning their support for our campaign. (One synagogue in Victoria, and tiny one in Wharton headed by a well-known Jewish lawyer).
On the incident that's being talked about in some blog media about the campaign manager directing me to a press conference of our opponent Lefty Morris in Victoria to push back on Anti-Jewish charges from the Morris campaign, yes, that did happen. The Victoria Advocate described the press conference very accurately. Yes, I was asked (not forced), to attend the conference dressed in a Jewish yarlmuke, and other Jewish adornments.
There was another incident when Ron finally agreed to a meeting with Houston Jewish Young Republicans at the Freeport office. He berated them, and even shouted at one point, over their un-flinching support for Israel. So, much so, that the 6 of them walked out of the office. I was left chasing them down the hallway apologizing for my boss.
Is Ron Paul a homo-phobe? Well, yes and no. He is not all bigoted towards homosexuals. He supports their rights to do whatever they please in their private lives. He is however, personally uncomfortable around homosexuals, no different from a lot of older folks of his era.
There were two incidents that I will cite, for the record. One that involved me directly, and another that involved another congressional staffer or two.
(I am revealing this for the very first time, and I'm sure Jim Peron will be quite surprised to learn this.)
In 1988, Ron had a hardcore Libertarian supporter, Jim Peron, Owner of Laissez Faire Books in San Francisco. Jim set up a magnificent 3-day campaign swing for us in the SF Bay Area. Jim was what you would call very openly Gay. But Ron thought the world of him. For 3 days we had a great time trouncing from one campaign event to another with Jim's Gay lover. The atmosphere was simply jovial between the four of us. (As an aside we also met former Cong. Pete McCloskey during this campaign trip.) We used Jim's home/office as a "base." Ron pulled me aside the first time we went there, and specifically instructed me to find an excuse to excuse him to a local fast food restaurant so that he could use the bathroom. He told me very clearly, that although he liked Jim, he did not wish to use his bathroom facilities. I chided him a bit, but he sternly reacted, as he often did to me, Eric, just do what I say. Perhaps "sternly" is an understatement. Ron looked at me directly, and with a very angry look in his eye, and shouted under his breath: "Just do what I say NOW."
The second incident involved one or two other staffers many years later at the BBQ in Surfside Beach. I was not in direct presence of the incident. But another top staffer, and I believe one of our secretaries, was witnessed to it. This top staffer adores Ron, but was extremely insulted by his behavior, I would even say flabbergasted to the point of considering resigning from his staff over it.
"Bobby," a well-known and rather flamboyant and well-liked gay man in Freeport came to the BBQ. Let me stress Ron likes Bobby personally, and Bobby was a hardcore campaign supporter. But after his speech, at the Surfside pavilion Bobby came up to Ron with his hand extended, and according to my fellow staffer, Ron literally swatted his hand away.
Again, let me stress. I would not categorize that as "homo-phobic," but rather just unsettled by being around gays personally. Ron, like many folks his age, very much supports toleration, but chooses not to be around gays on a personal level. It's a personal choice. And though, it may seem offensive to some, he has every right in my mind to feel and act that way.
Finally, let me make a couple observations. The liberal media is ferociously attacking Ron this morning, on everything from the Newsletters to his various PACs. I'm amused at how off-base they all are. If they are looking for something that went un-explained after many years, it's the Nadia Hayes incident from the end of the presidential campaign in 1988. I personally am still a little ticked off by this, and surprised that nobody has ever followed up on it. In brief, Nadia was Ron's longtime business/campaign manager in the 1980s. On the very last day of the presidential campaign, attorneys, accountants, and even Nassau Bay police dept. investigation officials stormed into our campaign office, sealed everything off, rushed us campaign staffers into the storeroom (literally), and for hours on end ruffled through the entire campaign records, file cabinets, and other papers.
Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert were there too. We were greatly surprised by this. Nadia was eventually convicted of embezzlement and went to jail for 6 months, plus had to pay $140,000 in restitution to Ron.
There were rumors at the time, and long thereafter, that Lew and Burt had pinned it all on Nadia, and that they had their own reasons for the "coup." For years afterwards, Rockwell, and Blumert had complete control of Ron's enterprises through Jean McIver and (former JBS/Jesse Helms fundraiser) David "James" Mertz of northern Virginia.
It was easy to pin it all on Nadia. She lived extravagantly, and her husband who owned a boat repair business in Clear Lake, had recently had some serious financial problems.
Nadia never resurfaced, and was never heard from again.
I will attest, that when campaign consultant Tony Payton died of heart failure, in 2002 I believe, I specifically asked Ron if I could look Nadia up, and contact her to let her know that her longtime friend had died, and he reacted sternly to me, expressing that he did not want me to do that, and if I did, there would be serious consequences. I was shocked. And this was one of the reasons I eventually left his staff.
On one other matter, I'd like to express in the strongest terms possible, that the liberal media are focusing in on entirely the wrong aspects regarding controversies on Ron Paul.
It's his foreign policy that's the problem; not so much some stupid and whacky things on race and gays he may have said or written in the past.
Ron Paul is most assuredly an isolationist. He denies this charge vociferously. But I can tell you straight out, I had countless arguments/discussions with him over his personal views. For example, he strenuously does not believe the United States had any business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWII. He expressed to me countless times, that "saving the Jews," was absolutely none of our business. When pressed, he often times brings up conspiracy theories like FDR knew about the attacks of Pearl Harbor weeks before hand, or that WWII was just "blowback," for Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy errors, and such.
I would challenge him, like for example, what about the instances of German U-boats attacking U.S. ships, or even landing on the coast of North Carolina or Long Island, NY. He'd finally concede that that and only that was reason enough to counter-attack against the Nazis, not any humanitarian causes like preventing the Holocaust.
There is much more information I could give you on the sheer lunacy of his foreign policy views. Let me just concentrate on one in specific. And I will state this with absolute certainty:
Ron Paul was opposed to the War in Afghanistan, and to any military reaction to the attacks of 9/11.
He did not want to vote for the resolution. He immediately stated to us staffers, me in particular, that Bush/Cheney were going to use the attacks as a precursor for "invading" Iraq. He engaged in conspiracy theories including perhaps the attacks were coordinated with the CIA, and that the Bush administration might have known about the attacks ahead of time. He expressed no sympathies whatsoever for those who died on 9/11, and pretty much forbade us staffers from engaging in any sort of memorial expressions, or openly asserting pro-military statements in support of the Bush administration.
On the eve of the vote, Ron Paul was still telling us staffers that he was planning to vote "No," on the resolution, and to be prepared for a seriously negative reaction in the District. Jackie Gloor and I, along with quiet nods of agreement from the other staffers in the District, declared our intentions to Tom Lizardo, our Chief of Staff, and to each other, that if Ron voted No, we would immediately resign.
Ron was "under the spell" of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time, who was our legislative director. Norm Singleton, another Lew Rockwell fanatic agreed with Joe. All other staffers were against Ron, Joe and Norm on this, including Lizardo. At the very last minute Ron switched his stance and voted "Yay," much to the great relief of Jackie and I. He never explained why, but I strongly suspected that he realized it would have been political suicide; that staunchly conservative Victoria would revolt, and the Republicans there would ensure that he would not receive the nomination for the seat in 2002. Also, as much as I like to think that it was my yelling and screaming at Ron, that I would publicly resign if he voted "No," I suspect it had a lot more to do with Jackie's threat, for she WAS Victoria. And if Jackie bolted, all of the Victoria conservatives would immediately turn on Ron, and it wouldn't be pretty.
If you take anything from this lengthy statement, I would hope that it is this final story about the Afghanistan vote, that the liberal media chooses to completely ignore, because it doesn't fit their template, is what you will report.
If Ron Paul should be slammed for anything, it's not some silly remarks he's made in the past in his Newsletters. It's over his simply outrageously horrendous views on foreign policy, Israel, and national security for the United States. His near No vote on Afghanistan. That is the big scandal. And that is what should be given 100 times more attention from the liberal media, than this Newsletter deal.
Eric Dondero, Publisher
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Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule
The day every baby name addict waits for all year is finally here, as the Social Security Administration released its list of Top 1000 Boy and Girl Names this morning. To many people's surprise–including a sizable number of our contest entrants–Emma leapfrogged over Isabella–last year's #2– to become the most popular girls' name in the country for the first time. She won by a very narrow margin though–there were 18,587 baby Emmas born, and 18,377 Isabellas. The boys list saw very little change, in fact the top five names–Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel–were identical to last years.
We will be studying and analyzing the lists over the next days and weeks, but here are a few initial observations:
Chloe entered the Top 10 for the first time, displacing Hannah (as in Montana), which dropped from #9 to #15. On the other hand the name of the real Hannah Montana, Miley (a nickname invented by dad Billy Ray Cyrus) jumped 151 places. Some other girls' names substantially on the rise: Aubrey, Brooklyn, Layla, Peyton and Payton, Genesis, Bella, Hayden, Marley, London, Piper, Lila, and the K-krazy-Kardarshian-influenced Khloe.
As for the boys, if both the Aiden and Aidan spellings were added together, that would have been the Number One name, topping Jacob. In addition, Jayden rose to just outside the Top Ten, and others on the upswing include Elijah and Eli, Brayden, Carter, Chase, Brody, Liam, Hayden (for both sexes), Colton, Levi, Oliver, Jonah, Miles, and Hudson.
You can access the entire list of 2,000 names on the Social Security site. An interesting feature they've added this year is the greatest changes in popularity from 2007 to 2008. (Highest for girls are Khloe, Marlee and Marely (!), and for boys, Jacoby, Kane and Beckett.)
CONTEST: We will be going through the entries over the weekend and announcing the winner on Monday.


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The iOS Calendar app hasn't seen much visual changes but does benefit greatly from the Facebook integration. Birthdays and events from Facebook are immediately synced with your calendar but you still get the option to omit them from the Calendars tab.
Otherwise the interface is the same. You can view by list (iOS's agenda variant), day and month. There's also a toggle to get back to today if you've strayed too far back or forth.
Switching over to landscape automatically opens up weekly view, which lists all of your events in a side-scrollable fashion. Events are color-coded so you can recognize what's what.
Creating an event is done the same way as before. You can choose which calendar you want the event to be synced with, add a location, additional notes and set up an alert.
Here is the Calendars tab. You can customize the iCloud personal and job-related event colors to your liking. You can also create additional calendar entries, for example if you have two jobs, etc.
The Reminders app has a pretty simple interface doing some basic but important stuff. There are two viewing options - by date or a list. Both of them start with a Completed list as a first pane.
In the List view you have the option to add different lists - the default one is the events on your phone. But you can add list for iCloud or Gmail reminders for example. All lists appear as different panes.
Viewing by date gives you lots of panes - you start with Completed and then you have one pane for each day you have events for. You also get a Calendar shortcut, where you can choose easily the day you want.
When you choose to create a new reminder, first you must type its name directly on the pane and click Done. After that, you are able to edit (just tap on it) - you can choose the Type of reminder - by date or location, Due option, Priority and to which list it will belong (iPhone, iCloud, Gmail etc.).
If you want to be reminded on the day of the event, you just choose date and time.
A novel feature is the location-aware reminder triggering option. You can choose a location from your phonebook or your current location and then you choose whether you like the reminder to activate on arrival or departure.
As we said earlier, you can also set a reminder to call someone on a location or leaving the current one. Both location aware features are nifty but they would undoubtedly take their toll on battery life.
Voice Memo is on-board as well. You can capture practically unlimited voice memos and send them to others via a message or mail.
The Calculator app hasn't been changed for some time now. It still works really well. You can enter scientific mode when going landscape.
The Clock app has world clock, alarms, stopwatch and timer. You can now set any of the songs in your music library as an alarm sound. You can also choose from your custom ringtones.
The stopwatch and timer apps have remained unchanged. You can set a timer notification from your music library too.
Weather has been slightly revamped. The weather cards are now cleaner in design and slightly darker too. Also now on the taller iPhone 5 screen the detailed information on today's weather is a side-scrollable tab in the weather card, instead of the drop-down version we've become accustomed to. As usual, weather info is sourced from Yahoo and years of use so far have proven it's not always the most accurate source of forecast information - of course, that may depend on your country.
iBooks offers various font and color settings, but on a screen this size, it's just not the best e-reading experience. Pages are side-scrollable only and on a mobile phone that doesn't quite make sense.
The iBooks app is also a PDF viewer.
You can choose different fonts, reduce and increase the text size, change the background and play around with brightness.
There are many quality apps in the App Store. Many of them paid and some that are free. Whether you're looking for organizing ones or just plain entertainment ones you can fill in the gaps very easily.
Accessibility is focused on helping users with handicaps to interact with their iPhone in a more comfortable way. VoiceOver will narrate you through the phone's menu, Zoom and Large Text will improve the usability for people that have trouble seeing small text, etc.
The iPhone can use the LED flash for alerts and you can assign and even create custom vibration alerts to specific events or contacts - much like you would assign a personalized ringtone.
The Assistive Touch is another useful feature. By activating it you get a new on-screen key that stays available throughout the UI, even on the lockscreen and in games. It's shaped as a homescreen icon and offers a few useful menus.
You can easily move the key in one of the four corners of the screen at any time. Tapping on it reveals four shortcuts - Gestures, Device, Home, Favorites. Every shortcut, except the Home key, opens another submenu.
The Gestures shortcut allows you to simulate two, three, four or five-finger tap. The Device shortcut will allows you to rotate the screen (if available), lock the screen, use the volume controls and even simulate a device shake.
In the Favorites section you have a Pinch gesture shortcut and you can additionally assign six more custom gestures. You just need to perform them once so the iOS can save them.
The Home virtual key has the same functionality as the hardware Home - you can single/double/triple click it for the relevant commands.
The Assistive Touch is a pure accessibility option that helps you control everything in the iOS with let's say just one finger.
The last two features we are going to mention are the Guided Access and the Lost Mode.
The Guided Access locks the iDevice to work with a single app only. It cannot be closed unless Guided Access is disabled. While active - all hardware controls are disabled - lock, home, volume and switch. When configured, you launch an app, then triple-tap the Home key, enter the password and done - the iGadget is now locked on to this specific app until you triple-tap the home key again and enter the right password.
This means that the Guided access could work quite well as as kid or test mode. It will allow you to give your iDevice to your kid without being worried that it will access inappropriate content or mess up your settings and apps.
The Lost Mode is part of the former Find My iPhone service. If you lose your gadget, you can lock (but not wipe) it remotely and send a message with your contact (and possibly, reward) information.


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ODH Project Director Q&A: Ryan Cordell
In our ongoing series of interviews with recent Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants awardees, this week we've asked Ryan Cordell, project director of "Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers," to answer a few questions. Together with collaborators Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and David Smith of Northeastern University's NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Cordell is exploring how stories, poems, and news items circulated among American newspapers in the 1800s. Using advanced computational methods to analyze the large-scale collection of digitized newspaper pages in Chronicling America, a joint project of the NEH and Library of Congress, the project team is exploring cultural and literary trends in 19th-century America as well as individual texts that may have circulated widely but have since been largely overlooked by researchers. Through this work, the team hopes to shed light on not only which texts were reprinted across newspapers, but also what factors prompted editors to reprint (with and without attribution) pieces from a complexly interconnected, geographically diverse web of sources.
Follow the project's progress at http://www.viraltexts.org/.
ODH: What are some good examples of literature or news stories that "went viral" in 19th century publications?
Ryan: We're finding a wide variety of texts that "went viral": poems, short stories, news, travel accounts, "how to" pieces, political speeches. One of the most interesting genres has been what we're calling vignettes. These are short prose pieces, typically one-three paragraphs long, and typically anonymously authored. They read a bit like news pieces and bit like fiction. For instance, one very popular vignette claimed to be a letter, written "by a dying wife to her husband" and found by him on her pillow after she died. In the letter she recounts her love for him and counsels him about living a moral life after she has passed away. While this vignette claims to be transcribed from a letter, the piece gives no details—the name of the husband or wife, the town in which they lived—which would allow readers to verify the story. Nineteenth-century newspapers were hybrid publications. They included news, fiction, poetry, and many other genres of writing which as modern readers we don't associate with the newspaper. These vignettes seem to embody the hybrid media in which they appeared: they are simultaneously news and fiction, true and false.
Another good example is "The Inquiry," which was the title given to a religious poem by the Scottish poet Charles Mackay. This poem demonstrates the ways that pieces changed as they circulated around the country. In this case, the first line of the poem is edited as the poem circulates, changing from "Tell me, ye winged winds" to "Tell me, ye winding winds" within a few weeks of its first publication. What I find interesting is that the edited version becomes the most popular version—it's actually printed far more times than the original. In the antebellum press, texts and authorship aren't stable—both are continually changing as pieces are reprinted, reauthored, and reappropriated for the varied purposes of readers and editors.
ODH: How might the computational methods you propose augment what scholars already know about republication practices and 19th-century American culture more broadly?
Ryan: There have been really several fabulous studies of antebellum reprinting. My touchstone is Meredith McGill's American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting. As McGill says in that book, however, those studies have been bound by very human limitations. There are millions and millions of newspaper and magazine pages from the period, far more than any scholar could study in a lifetime. Because the archive—and here I mean the print, microfilm, and digital archive—of periodicals is so vast, it's also not well indexed. To find these short reprinted texts from periodicals across the country would require many lifetimes of continuous reading and annotation. In many ways we hope to test and extend the work that scholars have done on republication by testing their ideas across an entire corpus. By looking at reprinting systemically, we expect new questions to arise about how reprinting practices intersected with other social, political, technical, and religious systems.
ODH: What are some of the challenges involved in a project like this one? How are you tackling these?
Ryan: There are many challenges here. Working effectively across three disciplines (our team is comprised of historians, literary scholars, and computer scientists). Finding meaningful patterns in very messy data—though I should say that the fact that the data is so messy is partially why my computer science colleague, David Smith, was interested in working on the project! One of our biggest challenges is access. We've started our work using the Library of Congress' Chronicling America newspaper archive. We've been able to find many, many viral texts, but we're painfully aware of how incomplete that collection is. Chronicling America is based on state-level digitization projects, and there are huge holes, either because a given state hasn't digitized its newspapers or because their newspapers were digitized by commercial archives who don't make the data available to researchers. We don't have any newspapers from Georgia, or from Michigan, or even from Massachusetts. These and other state-sized gaps prevent us from building a truly national picture of antebellum reprinting. Right now we're talking with several commercial archive providers about getting access to their data, but it's been a slow and often frustrating process.
ODH: In what ways does this project complement other efforts making use of Chronicling America, such as the NEH-funded Mapping Texts and Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Pandemic?
Ryan: Along with projects like Mapping Texts and Epidemiology of Information, our viral texts project demonstrates the potential that large-scale collections of humanities data for asking new kinds of questions. When you can search for patterns across very large corpora, you can uncover system-wide phenomena that are obscure at the level of an individual newspaper issue or series. One thing we've done with our initial findings is use the thousands of reprinted texts we've uncovered to map the network of antebellum print. We use shared reprints (reprinted texts that appear between two publications) to map influence across the system. These network graphs begin to illustrate which newspapers shaped the network: which papers printed texts that many other newspapers also printed. We're already finding some surprising results. Newspapers that haven't been well studied by scholars—in cities such as Nashville, Tennessee and Glasgow, Missouri—are proving more central to the network than we expected going into this project. As we annotate our data we'll be able to make more subtle analyses: tracking whether the political affiliation of newspapers shaped their network of reprinting, for instance. In this way, we're building on the work of projects like Mapping Texts and Epidemiology of Information to consider newspapers systemically, rather than reading them selectively.
ODH: How might this project benefit humanities scholars hoping to adapt your methods as they pursue different research questions, whether using Chronicling America newspapers or other large-scale collections of digitized humanities materials?
Ryan: Though it may seem a more obscure benefit, I think our project is a model for effective cross-disciplinary collaboration, particularly between humanities scholars and computer scientists. These kinds of collaborations can be difficult to make work—all parties need to be intellectually invested in the project and building toward publishable results within their respective fields. It's important that the collaborators recognize this and keep that end in view throughout. Humanities scholars can't work with computer scientists if they expect their CS colleagues to work as programmers for humanities projects. There must be intellectual stakes on the CS side as well.
Beyond this, I hope our project can demonstrate the real payoffs that complex pattern analysis using digital corpora might hold for literary and historical scholarship. Often the only example scholars have seen of this kind of work is the Google N-grams Viewer, a tool which one can use to track the rise and fall of particular words and phrases within the Google Books corpora. While it's fun software to play around with, the Ngrams Viewer is ultimately of limited use for scholars, primarily because it provides no way for researchers to dig into the books behind the charts or explore the context for the trends the charts suggest. Our project makes use of similar techniques, but in service of a specific and (we think) important question for scholars of nineteenth-century America—a question that couldn't be answered without computational linguistics tools.
Finally (and briefly), we are building a web interface for our results at viraltexts.org. We've already uncovered far more viral texts than we can analyze, and we know that other scholars will find interest in texts or aspects of texts that we missed. We hope that historians, literary scholars, and others will be able to use our data to ask and answer questions we didn't even consider.


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GeoCities Torrent Patch
Geocities torrent information.
Somewhere deep in the months-long process of uploading the GeoCities torrent from the seeding machine, a disk failure happened and a corruption occurred. A (relatively) small number of files were corrupted, meaning that the torrent wouldn't be able to complete. Note: The original data was not lost, just the compressed files. In total, this was less than 300mb of files, but one of them was part of a much larger fileset (E-n, roughly 5gb in total), which until we've tested just swapping out the file, should be assume to be non-functional.
A new set of files are being compressed to replace these broken files, and are currently being hosted here.
The original torrent link on piratebay.org: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5923737/Geocities_-_The_Torrent


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Law conference to focus on poverty
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Writer: Leigh Tenewitz, 706/542-5172, email@example.com Contact: Nandi Campbell, 917/805-3612, firstname.lastname@example.com
Law conference to focus on poverty
Athens, Ga. - The third annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference will explore practical approaches to solving poverty through the law with notable speakers from across the country, including Yale University's Stephen Wizner and prominent Atlanta attorney and Fulton County Daily Report's 2007 "Newsmaker of the Year" B.J. Bernstein. The conference will be held April 4-5 at the University of Georgia School of Law and is open to the public; however, registration is required.
"This conference seeks to bring together eminent practitioners in their respective fields, as well as students and faculty, to discuss practical approaches to lawyering that can best serve the underprivileged," conference organizer and third-year School of Law student Nandi F. Campbell said. "We hope to provide participants with dynamic and creative ways to combat poverty through the vehicle of law."
The two-day conference will include a variety of panel discussions and roundtables on such topics as: civil liberties; race and the criminal justice system; decriminalizing mental illness; funding public defender systems; the media's role in the law; immigration; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth in state sponsored institutions; environmental justice; and women's reproductive rights.
There will also be a moot court exposition on Civil Gideon, which will explore whether the constitution requires a lawyer for poor people in civil cases involving fundamental legal needs, such as shelter. A panel of "judges" will hear oral arguments, discuss those arguments and then field questions from conference participants.
Some key panelists for the various sessions include: Georgia Court of Appeals Chief Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes, Southern Poverty Law Center's Director of the Immigrant Justice Project Mary Bauer, Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Mental Health Advocate Sabrina Rhinehart, GreenLaw Executive Director Justine Thompson and Southern Center for Human Rights Staff Attorney Gerald R. "Gerry" Weber.
The conference will begin Friday, April 4, at 5:30 p.m. with a keynote address by Wizner, Yale Law School Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and supervising attorney, who has authored numerous articles on legal education, legal services, ethics, juvenile justice and poverty law.
Following Wizner's speech, Phylliss J. Holmen, executive director of Georgia Legal Services and member of the American Bar Association's Presidential Task Force on Access to Civil Justice, will be honored with the 2008 WIPI Lifetime Achievement Award. Emory University School of Law second-year students Terri Porter and Stephen Weyer, who both serve on the Emory Public Interest Committee Student Board as co-chairs of the committee's Inspiration Awards, will be jointly presented with the 2008 WIPI Student Achievement Award.
On Saturday, after more than a dozen panel and roundtable discussions, the closing keynote speech will be delivered by Bernstein, Fulton County Daily Report's 2007 "Newsmaker of the Year," who specializes in criminal law. She has handled a number of high profile cases and has represented Genarlow Wilson, the rapper DaBrat and one of the Gold Club defendants, to name a few.
The conference is free for UGA students and faculty. All other participants will be required to pay a slight fee. For complete information or to register for the conference, please visit www.law.uga.edu/wipi . CLE credits for attorneys will be available.
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Now, the next blockbuster: the FDA-approval iPhone app!
"We did a stroke trial ... and compared performance of radiologists reading on the iPhone to the standard clinical reading work station and the performance was identical," said Mitchell. "They performed just as well in this tough diagnostic task.
"That's a really good indicator that this could be quite useful for diagnosing all sorts of things that aren't as tough," he added.
Mitchell said it's currently being tested on the new iPad, which has a larger screen to view the images.
The application for iPhone and other mobile devices has been licensed as a medical device in Canada, said Philippe Laroche, a spokesman for Health Canada.
It's still awaiting approval from the US Food and Drug Administration and CE Mark in Europe.


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I couldn't help myself. I had to make a new Halloween decoration this year. If you'd like to check out some of my past Halloween projects and decorations, click on the Halloween label to the right!
I've had my eye on this larger-than-life witch lawn ornament from Martha for a few years, and this was the year that I finally made her!
Martha gives great instructions, but I'll quickly walk you through what I did.
I started with an 4'x8' sheet of chipboard then free-handed the witch design on one sign with a Sharpie marker. (You can print out the template from the link above if you want, then tape it to your board and just cut through the paper. BUT it's 35 pages long and I just don't have that kind of printer ink!)
Carefully cut out your design with a jig saw.
You're also going to need to buy a 6' length of galvanized pipe, 3 straps that will fit over your pipe, 6 short screws to attach the straps to the witch, a screw hook, an old lantern and an old broom.
Using a small sledge hammer, bang your pipe into the ground at least a foot, or until it's sturdy enough to hold up your witch. Strap the witch to the pipe...
...and an old broom to the back of her front hand...
...then screw your hook into her back hand.
I bought an inexpensive outdoor ground light fixture, a flood light bulb and a reeeeeally long outdoor extension cord. If you can get your hands on an automatic timer that you can plug this into as well, that would be great. I wrapped the plugs in a plastic bag and duct tape, just to make sure they don't get wet.
I think her lantern is too small and the broom looks stupid, but that's okay. Maybe I'll upgrade her next year.
Oh, I'm so glad I finally made this! I've gotten so many comments on her!
Go ahead, bust out your jig saw. This is a Halloween decoration your neighborhood will be sure to notice! ;)


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Liam Gallagher |
The Beady Eye singer has had no contact with his wife of five years since it was claimed he had a secret seven-month old daughter with US journalist Liza Ghorbani, and his mother-in-law Mary Appleton is stunned by his cowardly behaviour.
She told Britain's Grazia magazine: "Liam hasn't bothered to call Nicole. He phoned her the day before it came out and he hasn't been in touch since. She can't get hold of him. She's absolutely devastated. This is so out of character for the Liam I know.
"Her sisters are supportive but she is in a terrible state. It's like he's lost his mind... it's been a real shock. It feels like he's been living a double life."
According to Mary, Nicole - who has 12-year-old son Gene with Liam - believes there is yet another woman involved, his former personal assistant Debbie Gwyther, who was fired the day after the news broke for being "too close" to the musician after photographs emerged of the pair lounging by a pool in Ibiza.
Mary added: "Nicole knows they are together. She has had it confirmed. We believe he's just dumped Nicole and gone... I believe he doesn't want to save the marriage."
Another source told LOOK magazine Nicole, 38, is unlikely to take Liam back because she feels "humiliated" by his betrayal.
They said: "I can't see her taking him back - not in a million years. I wouldn't be surprised if she sends him to live in his New York flat, where he can do what he likes with whoever he chooses - see if it makes him happy. A divorce would be hugely costly for him, too."


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It was my third day out in the South Alps, and I was convinced I was an "ame-onna" (rain woman) as I had been in my rain gear for two days straight, and there was no sign of it letting up.
That morning I was once again putting on the gear when the sun came out. I wasn't sure whether to be happy or not. But as I stripped off my rain jacket, the heavens poured down on me again…forget it; I cursed and kept on walking without protection, letting the rain soak me.
The ascent up Kita-dake was tougher than I remembered, as I had been up Japan's high mountain a couple times in the past, but always with sunshine. Steep but interesting. I had fun walking up the frozen valley which split up the trail. Kita-dake, the second tallest mountain in Japan (3,192 meters), is beautiful in the summer, known for its vast array of flora.
It's usually packed with hikers and flower-mad photographers and tourists. Not this time, though. Bad weather and eroded bus roads allowed me to hike in solitude. In between gusts I saw amazing flowers with the most interesting shapes and colors. I took a break and stared in fascination. I said aloud more than once laughing, "How does this happen? How is this entire mountain decorated with such amazing perfection?"
Just before the summit of Kita-dake, I spotted a furry creature peering over a rock. Hmm, I wasn't sure what I was seeing, whether I was hallucinating or just tired. But again, I saw a gray-brown furry head pop up, and then two, and then three. (And then a red ass!) A family of monkeys was hanging out on Kita-dake trying to hide from me. I went closer but they fled, and a few rocks came tumbling my way. Okay, I get the message and continued along my way.
That night I ran into some fellow hikers also amazed at the wildlife on Kita-dake.
"In Austria nothing grows higher than 2,000 meters and, at 3,000 meters, forget it. Rocks, low growing shrubs, moss and lichen…no interesting colors. Since we've been here, rain every day—the weather is awful—but hey, the flowers, how amazing. You never get this at home."
The next morning as I suited up in my worn-out raingear and walked into the flowered path, I had to agree with them.
Trail Tips
The first day is really tough, so I would start early and hike the first six hours, then stay in the hut on Kita-dake Buttress. This hut is only an hour from the summit so, in the morning, wake up early, enjoy the summit and have a relaxing descent as you should arrive back to the trailhead in less than four hours. If you have a few days to spare, once you arrive at the summit, keep on going south through to Aino-dake (another hyakumeizan mountain). Budget about ¥8,000 per hut stay (includes two meals).
Mountain Stats
Mountain: Kita-dake
Difficulty Level: 4 out of 5
Location: On the border of Yamanashi and Nagano Prefectures.
Peak: 3,192 meters
Duration: Two-day hike
When to go: July-October
Things to Bring: Raingear, flashlight, map, camera, sunscreen, water, camera, gloves, sunglasses, warm hat, food supplies, sleeping bag, cash for hut stay and supplies.
Getting There
From Shinjuku take JR to Kofu, and then take a bus to Hirokawara trailhead (広河原).
Shinjuku Station → (2 hrs. 22 mins. ¥2,210) Kofu → (2 hrs. ¥1,950) Hirokawara Trailhead.
Contact Information
Kita-dake Sanso Lodge: 090-529-4947
Kita-dake Hut: (0552)-88-2421
Yamanashi Transportation Office: (0552) 23-0821
Kofu Station Taxi Service: (0552) 22-5151
Things Not to Miss
Between the months of June and August is the perfect opportunity to view flowers blooming at their brightest, so definitely bring your camera. Don't miss a dip in the onsen to relieve those muscles on the way back to Kofu City.
South Alps Onsen Lodge: (0552) 88-2010.
Recommended Hiking Schedule
Day 1: 6 hours (hut-stay at buttress)
Day 2: 1 hour to summit, 4-hour decent.


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For afterwards all Greece, as a man may say, was in commotion;
and quarrels arose everywhere between the patrons of the commons, that sought to bring in the Athenians, and the few, that desired to bring in the Lacedaemonians.
Now in time of peace they could have had no pretence nor would have been so forward to call them in;
but being war and confederates to be had for either party, both to hurt their enemies and strengthen themselves, such as desired alteration easily got them to come in.
And many and heinous things happened in the cities through this sedition, which though they have been before and shall be ever as long as human nature is the same, yet they are more calm and of different kinds according to the several conjunctures.
For in peace and prosperity as well cities as private men are better minded because they be not plunged into necessity of doing anything against their will.
But war, taking away the affluence of daily necessaries, is a most violent master and conformeth most men's passions to the present occasion.
The cities therefore being now in sedition and those that fell into it later having heard what had been done in the former, they far exceeded the same in newness of conceit, both for the art of assailing and for the strangeness of their revenges.
The received value of names imposed for signification of things was changed into arbitrary.
For inconsiderate boldness was counted true-hearted manliness;
provident deliberation, a handsome fear;
modesty, the cloak of cowardice;
to be wise in everything, to be lazy in everything.
A furious suddenness was reputed a point of valour.
To re-advise for the better security was held for a fair pretext of tergiversation.
He that was fierce was always trusty, and he that contraried such a one was suspected.
He that did insidiate, if it took, was a wise man;
but he that could smell out a trap laid, a more dangerous man than he.
But he that had been so provident as not to need to do the one or the other was said to be a dissolver of society and one that stood in fear of his adversary.
In brief, he that could outstrip another in the doing of an evil act or that could persuade another thereto that never meant it was commended.
To be kin to another was not to be so near as to be of his society because these were ready to undertake anything and not to dispute it.
For these societies were not made upon prescribed laws of profit but for rapine, contrary to the laws established.
And as for mutual trust amongst them, it was confirmed not so much by divine law as by the communication of guilt.
And what was well advised of their adversaries, they received with an eye to their actions to see whether they were too strong for them or not, and not ingenuously.
To be revenged was in more request than never to have received injury.
And for oaths (when any were) of reconcilement, being administered in the present for necessity, were of force to such as had otherwise no power;
but upon opportunity, he that first durst thought his revenge sweeter by the trust than if he had taken the open way.
For they did not only put to account the safeness of that course but, having circumvented their adversary by fraud, assumed to themselves withal a mastery in point of wit.
And dishonest men for the most part are sooner called able than simple men honest, and men are ashamed of this title but take a pride in the other.
The cause of all this is desire of rule out of avarice and ambition, and the zeal of contention from those two proceeding.
For such as were of authority in the cities, both of the one and the other faction, preferring under decent titles, one, the polit- ical equality of the multitude, the other, the moderate aristoc- racy, though in words they seemed to be servants of the public, they made it in effect but the prize of their contention;
and striving by whatsoever means to overcome both ventured on most horrible outrages and prosecuted their revenges still fartheir without any regard of justice or the public good, but limiting them, each faction, by their own appetite, and stood ready, whether by unjust sentence or with their own hands, when they should get power, to satisfy their present spite.
So that neither side made account to have anything the sooner done for religion [of an oath], but he was most commended that could pass a business against the hair with a fair oration.
The neutrals of the city were destroyed by both factions, partly because they would not side with them and partly for envy that they should so escape.
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It is difficult to describe how a friendship grows,
for it often grows from seemingly contradictory roots--mutual needs, overlapping
The growing hysteria of the administration's posture
on Cambodia seems to me to reflect a determined refusal to consider what
the fall of
This book is for the most part a reprint of the story that Sydney H. Schanberg wrote for The New York Times Magazine (January 20, 1980), which subsequently became the basis for the Oscar-winning film, The Killing Fields. In structure it seems a simple enough story of one man's heroic survival and another's personal redemption : insensitive Western journalist (Sydney Schanberg) badly miscalculates the danger that his Man Friday (Dith Pran) is in as the Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia; Sydney escapes deteriorating situation but Dith Pran can not leave; Sydney conducts a ceaseless rescue effort, while Dith Pran survives unimaginable horrors, before finally fleeing the country; they are reunited and all is forgiven. Mr. Schanberg makes this portion of the story more compelling by being relatively honest about his shabby treatment of Dith Pran and by revealing just how guilty he felt about what he had done. It thus becomes a story of recompense, of how he initially did wrong by Dith Pran but then did his best to set things right, and eventually everything worked out okay. However, this simple tale leaves out a much larger story of betrayal and moral blindness, one for which Mr. Schanberg never takes any responsibility and for which no one can ever grant him any absolution. Mr. Schanberg was a member of a Western press corps in South East Asia during the Vietnam Era which disastrously misjudged the intentions of both their own country and of those we were fighting against, with catastrophic results for the native populations. Writing in the pages of the New York Times on April 13, 1975, just five days before the final fall of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, to the Khmer Rouge, Mr. Schanberg wrote that for the : ...ordinary people of Indochina Ö it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone. Over the next several years, once the Americans were gone, the Khmer Rouge would either intentionally murder or starve through gross incompetence some 1.7 million citizens out of a population of just seven million. How could a journalist for one of the world's leading newspapers, who is supposed to have at least some minimal understanding of the story he's covering, have misjudged the situation so badly? Well, when Mr. Schanberg explains why he and Dith Pran decided to stay on in Cambodia to witness and report on the triumph of the Khmer Rouge, he says : Our decision to stay was founded on our belief--perhaps,
looking back, it was more a devout wish or hope--that when they won their
Wasn't 1975 awfully late in the 20th Century to still be harboring such placid delusions about the nature of Communism? Where was the nation that such advocates for communist takeover could point to which had enjoyed such a peaceful transition and "reconciliation"? Though it is conservatives who are most often accused of viewing other cultures and peoples through chauvinistic eyes, it seems apparent that this was a case of folks like Mr. Schanberg and Mr. McGovern (see above) and others on the Left seeing in the Khmer Rouge what they wished to see, a gentle rebuke to Western imperialism, rather than listening to what the Khmer Rouge made it abundantly clear that they really were, Leftist revolutionaries determined to remake their society by destroying it. We can give folks like Mr. Schanberg some benefit of the doubt and assume that they did not fully comprehend that their own political philosophies eventually had to end in killing fields and charnel heaps, but the Left's utopian assumption that Man was essentially "good" in the State of Nature, until he was corrupted by various social institutions and political philosophies, virtually begs people to seek a return to those halcyon days and as Mr. Schanberg describes the actions of Pol Pot : There is no doubt that the Khmer Rouge are turning
Cambodian society upside down, remaking it in the image of some earlier
In this the Khmer Rouge were merely realizing the dreams of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a State of Nature where Man had "neither houses, nor huts, nor any kind of property whatever" and returning society to the blessed status that Marx and Engels spoke of in The Communist Manifesto when man enjoyed a "primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership". How futile and disingenuous then to express shock when the Khmer Rouge proceeded to return Cambodia to this kind of primitive "Year Zero." Yet, while Mr. Schanberg goes to great lengths to demonstrate his genuine remorse at the life-threatening danger in which he had placed Dith Pran, the book is utterly devoid of any contrition for the at least partial role his journalism, and that of many of his fellow pressmen in Southeast Asia and his colleagues at the NY Times, played in getting America to abandon Cambodia and leave its people to the predictably ungentle ministrations of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. It is quite touching when Dith Pran and Mr. Schanberg are reunited, at a refugee camp in Thailand, and all is forgiven. But the seeming closure that this affecting scene provides to the story is unfortunately false. Even as we are thankful that Dith Pran made it out of the killing fields alive, we must be ever cognizant of the fact that nearly two million of his countrymen were not so fortunate. This is a holocaust for which America must bear some responsibility, not merely, as Mr. Schanberg wishes to have it, for being involved in Cambodia in the first place, but for bugging out when the going got tough. Surely some day the Left faces a reckoning for its century-long dalliance with homicidal Marxist regimes, but Mr. Schanberg does not begin that process here. The book is still worthwhile, because the story of Cambodia and of Dith Pran and the events to which he bore witness must never be forgotten. But there's a hollowness at the book's core, due to Mr. Schanberg's unwillingness, or inability, to perceive the true extent of his own culpability for the killing fields. (Reviewed:) Grade: (C+) Tweet Websites:-ESSAY : Cambodia (Sydney Schanberg) -ESSAY : Have Federal Judges Lost Touch With Reality? : Judges Exempt Selves From Law With Strange Internet Decision (Sydney H. Schanberg, Dec. 15, 1999 , APB Online) -ESSAY : Raymond Kelly: The Insider's Insider (Sydney Schanberg, March 24, 2000, APB Online) -INTERVIEW : Role Models with Sydney Schanberg (Columbia Journalism Review) -DISCUSSION : Online NewsHour: Pol Pot's Legacy -- June 18, 1997 (PBS) -DISCUSSION : Online NewsHour: Pol Pot Dies - April 16, 1998 (PBS) -VIDEO : Author Sydney Schanberg reacts to Pol Pot's death (CNN) -PROFILE : Print Legend Sydney Schanberg Online (December 14, 1999, Online Journalism Review) Ý -ESSAY : The Erasing Fields (William J. Bennetta, The Textbook Letter for September-October 1997) we can gfive (CBSnews.com Producer Jarrett Murphy, April 2000) -ESSAY : Pol Pot's Cheerleaders : Over a quarter a century ago, American leftists cheered, justified, and denied as the communists plunged Cambodia into a nightmare of atrocity. In the end, they failed to whitewash Pol Pot's record. They will not succeed in whitewashing their own. (Jeff Jacoby, April 24, 2001, Capitalism) -ESSAY : Don't Blame America for the 'Killing Fields' (Stephen J. Morris, Wall Street Journal | May 3, 2000) -ARCHIVES : "sydney Schanberg" (Find Articles) -REVIEW : of ÝReporting Vitetnam: Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969 and Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 (Jonathan Z. Larsen, CJR) -REVIEW : of Reporting Vietnam (Maurice Walsh, New Statesman) -REVIEW : of Crimes of War : What the Public Should Know edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff (JOHN T. SLANIA, Book Page) -REVIEW : of Crimes of War (David L. Ulin, LA Weekly) DITH PRAN :
Comments:Few people deny the contributory role played by France in the draconian Treaty of Versailles in the rise of Hitler, but few people recognise central role played by the US bombing campaign in the rise of Pol Pot. Be honest and look into the history of your country, instead of indulging in this exasperating selective amnesia! - Bismarck - Nov-08-2005, 07:06 ******************************************************* '... Whenever a Khmer spoke to e in English, it put me in a bad mood straight away. Not because of the dramatic events in Vietnam; for many local peasantry attached to their traditions and resistant to their ideologies, the Communist revolution was a disruption to their way of life. Rather, it was the American's uncouth methods, their crass ignorance of the milleu in which they had intervened, their clumsy demagogy, their misplaced clear conscience, and that easygoing, childlike sincerity that bordered on stupidity. They were total strangers in the area, driven by clichés about Asia and they behaved accordingly.' - Francois Bizot - Nov-08-2005, 07:01 ******************************************************* To the last two respondents, thank you for setting the reviewer straight. His references to those 'we were fighting against' suggests that he sees the US at the time as being some morally noble entity, and it shows the ignorance of the majority of the American public at large of the foreign policy decisions, overt and covert, and their consequences. The bombing campaign from 1969 to 1973, which resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Cambodian peasants, radicalised peasants, particularly in the east of the country. The KR would not have got the support they did and the backing from China to prosecute a war against a corrupt US-backed government which had overthrown Sihanouk, forcing the King to side with the Communists. Nixon and Kissinger (especially Kissinger!) are even viler than Pol Pot and his cronies. So get you facts right before you write reviews. Hand back the Nobel Prize Henry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Don't believe American lies! - Nov-08-2005, 06:09 ******************************************************* Your criticism of Sydney Schanberg and other reporters in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s makes no sense to me. Yes, plenty of people were wrong about the Khmer Rouge and were stunned by their genocidal regime. But to blame the reporters for what happened in Cambodia makes no sense. You seem to be suggesting that the reporters caused the United States to abandon Cambodia. No, it was the U.S. government, specifically the Ford administration, that abandoned Cambodia. Just as in Vietnam, where the reporters did not cause the United States to fail in its aims, neither did the reporters cause the United States to abandon Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge. Your suggestion that the genocide was somehow a result of the reporters' sympathy for Communism is a shallow analysis. The Communism of the Khmer Rouge was fanatical and bizarre and genocidal, far more so than any of the other versions of Communism that took root in Asia. Other versions of Communism, such as Vietnamese Communism, were repressive, yes, and they denied individual liberties, yes. But Vietnam did not experience the genocide of Cambodia. Nor did Laos. Today Asians are experiencing what some have called the quiet walkaway from Communism, and Vietnam today has a Communist government running an increasingly capitalist economy. And we must not forget that it was Communist Vietnam that toppled the Khmer Rouge, with opposition from both the United States and Communist China. China then turned around and invaded Vietnam in retaliation for Vietnam invading Cambodia. There has never been just one Communism; there have been different Communisms in different countries. The Khmer Rouge were among the most horrific rulers the world has ever witnessed. Perhaps American reporters were naive about the Khmer Rouge. Perhaps American political leaders were naive about them. But to blame American reporters for the Khmer Rouge's mass slaughter of the Cambodian people is absurd. - Viv - May-12-2005, 12:35 ******************************************************* Yes, the failure in SE Asia had nothing to do with the actions of Nixon, et. al. Well, this and engaging in a secret war, without the knowledge of the Congress (who holds the primary war-declaring power in the U.S. - of course respecting the Constitution was never a strong trait of the Nixon administration). - Jean Limintour - May-08-2004, 16:15 ******************************************************* |
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